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In a model predicting house prices from size and bedrooms, what is the label?

The house price. Size and bedrooms are features.

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  1. The house price ✔
  2. The number of bedrooms
  3. The square footage

Why: Features are the inputs the model looks at. The label is the answer it is learning to predict, here the price.

Huh, didn't know that: One row of features, with or without its label, is called an example.

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I asked the model what my house is worth. It said, "Let me check my features first."
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References

Answer: The house price. Features are the inputs the model looks at. The label is the answer it is learning to predict, here the price.

  1. Google Machine Learning Glossary: label developers.google.com/machine-learning/glossary
    In supervised machine learning, the "answer" or "result" portion of an example.
    Checked 2026-10-10.
  2. Google Machine Learning Glossary: feature developers.google.com/machine-learning/glossary
    An input variable to a machine learning model.
    Checked 2026-10-10.

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